Karbi Anglong erupts in protests over controversial Citizenship Bill

Guwahati, January 9, 2019:

As Assam continues to feel the lash of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 on its back, people from all over the Northeast have joined hands in their condemnation of the ‘jati’ damning Bill which is being sent to the Rajya Sabha for consideration and implementation today. Protests have erupted in Karbi Anglong too with people marching in the streets to prevent the Bill from being implemented.

The protest has been organized by the ‘Karbi Students Organization’ (KSA), ‘24+ Organization’ along with collaboration with other organizations from the region. One of the demonstrators slammed the “anti secular, Hindi, Hindu, Hindutva” policy of the ruling BJP party and called people of Karbi Anglong forward to uproot the “fascist” party from the hills and soil of Assam. He further added that it is impossible to implement the Bill’s policy now in view of the updation of the NRC which sees every foreigner who entered the country after 24 March, 1971 as an “illegal.”

Protesters of the Bill also shaved their heads in public and raised their voices in slogan against the BJP government.

Effigies of the ‘Jatiya Nayak’ CM Sarbananda Sonowal were also burned. Protesters have vowed to fight the Bill to the very last stages.